Reginald Hackforth

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Reginald Hackforth FBA (born August 17, 1887 in London , † May 6, 1957 in Cambridge ) was a British classical scholar .

After attending Westminster School , Hackforth studied classical philology at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge from 1907 to 1909 and graduated with first class honors in both parts of the classical tripo . After two years as a lecturer at the University of Manchester (1910-1912), he returned to Cambridge in 1912 as a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and remained in this position until the end of his life. He was the editor of the Classical Quarterly for many years, earning the respect and friendship of JD Denniston and AE Housman . From 1939 to 1952 he was the second Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University . In 1946 Hackforth was elected a Fellow of the British Academy . He is buried with his wife Lily († March 29, 1975) at the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge.

Hackforth mainly worked on Plato ( Letters ; Apology ; Philebos ; Phaedrus ; Phaedo ). He also wrote two chapters for the Cambridge Ancient History on the history of Sicily in the 4th and 5th centuries BC. BC, using his interpretation of the relevant passages in Pindar , Bakchylides and in the letters of Plato.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles . Manchester 1913, online
  • The composition of Plato's Apology . Cambridge 1933
  • Plato's examination of pleasure: a translation of the Philebus with an introduction and commentary . Cambridge 1945
  • Plato's Phaedrus. Translated with an introduction and commentary . Cambridge 1952
  • Plato's Phaedo, Translated with an introduction and commentary . Cambridge 1955

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SURNAME Hackforth, Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1957
Place of death Cambridge